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    <title>beginnings of gnostic Christianity</title>
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    <namePart>Rylands, L. Gordon (Louis Gordon)</namePart>
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    <publisher>Watts</publisher>
    <dateIssued>[1940]</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Introductory.--The Odes of Solomon: their character and probable date.--The Odes of Solomon: their doctrine.--The dogma of incarnation.--The name Jesus.--The death of the Christ.--Pauline and Johannine Christianity.--The primitive gospel.--Conclusion.--Appendix A. The Gospel of Peter.--Appendix B. The gnostic nucleus of the Epistle to the Romans.--Appendix C. The gnostic nucleus to the First epistle to the Corinthians.--Appendix D. The gnostic nucleus of  the Second epistle to the Corintians.--Appendix E. The original Epistle to the Galatians.--Appendix F. Prologue to the Fourth gospel.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">by L. Gordon Rylands.</note>
  <note>"By gnostic Christianity I mean the Christianity of Paul and of the Fourth gospel as distinguished from the doctrines of such writers as Baslides and Valentinus."--Pref.irhi.</note>
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